I’ve Been Reincarnated as a Tentacle Slime~ I Want to Live a Comfortable, Secure Life and Do Whatever I Want~ - Chapter 28

The next day, after the slimes finished feeding on the prepared food, I headed toward the bat Monster House with them.

“First, I’ll teach you three types of attack methods. Watch as I defeat about half of them, then each of you will take down about 10.”

I transformed my tentacles into a sword, spear, and hammer, slashing, piercing, and crushing the bats. I had probably defeated about half of them.

“This is how you can change your tentacles and fight. Now, try taking down the rest yourselves.”

“”””Yes!””””

The baby slimes were handling the three types of tentacles to hunt down the bats, copying what they had observed. Some of their movements were awkward, but experience would fill in those gaps. They were hunting effectively, showing good potential, though it seemed they hadn’t quite figured out the proper distance to the bats.

“You were hunting pretty well. Now, I think you understand the three types of attacks. Just like we have [Bludgeoning Resistance], you should choose attacks that match the enemy’s resistance. Also, it seems you all were having trouble with judging the distance to the bats, right?”

I questioned the slimes after they had finished hunting the bats.

“Yes. I wasn’t able to attack as accurately as Father. Do you have any advice?”

A slime that had missed a few attacks asked me for advice.

“Yes, there is. [Soundwave Manipulation] is one of them. You may think it’s for conversation, but in reality, it’s a skill used to determine the positional relationship between you and your opponent, like with bats.”

I shared the technique of emitting sound waves like radar to measure the distance between us and the enemy.

“This is what happens when the sound waves reflect…”

“Now, for the next one, you will participate in the hunt from the very start in the room.”

We headed to the next Monster House and hunted down the bats. To allow the young slimes to hunt more, we slowed down the pace.

The young slimes, using the radar, finished hunting the bats at a faster pace than before. They seem to have good potential.

“Well done. When it comes to tentacle control, the only thing left is to practice more and accumulate experience.”

“Yes! From now on, leave the hunting on the first floor to us.”

It makes me happy that they said that on their own.

“Sure, I’ll leave it to you. Honestly, I want to be able to leave it to you by the time we reach the third floor.”

“Leave it to us! We’ll live up to Father’s expectations.”

The young slimes are filled with enthusiasm. If they had noses, they’d probably be sniffing with excitement!

Tentacle manipulation, detection, and the next step is ensuring mobility.

“Now, next is transformation into monsters. For now, just get used to controlling the wolf. When running on walls or ceilings, use [Adhesion] to stick your feet to the surface.”

First, I demonstrated by running on the walls and ceiling in wolf form.

“Alright, give it a try. Once you can move around well enough in the Monster House, we’ll run through the first floor.”

“Leave it to us!”

The slime, who had been quite nimble during the hunt, was the first to transform into a wolf. It didn’t seem to have any problem running on the ground. Next, they tried running on the wall—no trouble at all. They were easily running on the ceiling now…

“Even in slime form, you can stick to walls and ceilings. [Adhesion] takes a bit of skill, but once you get used to it, it doesn’t seem difficult.”

Although not as agile as the nimble slime, the other slimes don’t seem to have any major issues.

And so, we ran through the first floor. Running through a large room is different from running through a maze-like hallway.

The agile one could keep up with me, but the other three apparently got left behind. After waiting for a while, I detected them on the radar, so they should be coming back soon.

“When it’s so winding, it’s hard to maintain top speed…”

“I’m afraid we’ll crash into the walls if we don’t slow down.”

“It’s hard to use the walls properly and avoid moving at right angles.”

While sharing their thoughts and areas for improvement, the three slimes returned.

“Well, you’ll be able to do it soon enough with practice. Now, let’s move on.”

We moved to the third floor and headed to the turtle Monster House. Here, we will train with drill tentacles and internal attacks.

“Here, we’ll increase the spear’s attack power. There are two patterns for this. First, spinning the spear like this increases its piercing power.”

The spear tentacle spins, turning into a drill. It pierces the turtle’s head, and multiple spears emerge from inside the turtle. The turtle is impaled by countless spears.

“This is an internal attack. You grow new tentacles inside your enemy’s body, change them into spears, and attack from within. Even if the surface is tough, most creatures aren’t solid all the way through. The only exceptions are magical creatures like golems. Small enemies, such as bats, are rare, so hitting a weak point for a one-hit kill is tough. However, with this, once you pierce anywhere, you can destroy the insides from that point, allowing you to take them down in one hit.”

“Turtles are slow, so they make for good practice. Now, let’s go hunting in the Monster House.”

Another slime, not the agile one, skillfully skewers the turtle. It seems that each individual has its own strengths and weaknesses.

“Even against tough opponents like turtles, it depends on how you fight. If you attack their weak points, it’s usually pretty effective.”

“The real issue will be whether we can land a hit on fast opponents, like wolves.”

“Alright, looking good. Next, we’ll move to the second floor for shield training.”

On the second floor, I change a few tentacles into turtle shells to make shields. I deploy them in all directions then stack them in one direction to create a multi-layered shield.

“Like this, you can either protect all directions or focus on defending one direction tightly, depending on the situation. Now, it’s time for real combat.”

We moved to the rabbit Monster House. As they appeared, I repelled the charging rabbits with multiple shields and then struck them down with a single thrust when their movement stopped.

“Like this, you’ll hunt the rabbits. Be mindful of how many you fight at once so you don’t get hurt. I’ll be monitoring the situation from the ceiling, so there’s no need to worry…”

“”””Yes!””””

The shields were deployed fully, and the rabbits were expertly handled. I didn’t need to assist. Rather, one slime managed to form a transparent shield into a dome shape, layering shields at key points to make it thicker.

Huh? You can do that? That’s useful to know.

Already, there are slimes who handle shields better than I do. It seems I’ll soon be the one learning how to fight.

After they successfully hunted the Monster House, I descended to the ground.

“Good job. I didn’t expect you to do this well… The transparent shield, especially, was quite impressive.”

“I tried to keep only the hardening properties, and it worked!”

He’s really shaking with excitement. He probably thinks he did a great job. I think he did, too.

“Now, let’s move on to the application of the tentacles. As with the transparent shield, tentacles aren’t just limited to stick shapes. I’ll show you a coordinated bat hunt on floors 1 and 2. I think it might still be tough for you, but I’d be happy if you could pick something up.”

I moved to another rabbit Monster House and, just like when I hunted with Rio, I dropped rocks from the ceiling to crush the rabbits. Next, I moved to floor 1 and hunted in the bat Monster House, skewering them with a wall of spikes.

“As you can see, you don’t need to be limited by the shape of the tentacles. Try hunting the Monster Houses on floors 1 and 2 by yourselves.”

I too was once trapped in the belief that I couldn’t become transparent, but there are probably a lot of things I can learn from them.

The baby slimes hunt in various ways in each floor’s Monster House: some form a wall with four of them and skewer their prey, others extend their tentacles into the monster’s dense area to summon spears and hunt in groups, some throw net-like tentacles like a fishing net and use the inner part as spears to finish off their prey, others wildly swing sword, spear, and staff tentacles as they run, pulverizing the prey in their path, and some charge like a heavy tank while keeping their shields deployed.

It’s fascinating to see the different fighting styles.

I thought that while watching the monsters being hunted down.

This time’s results:

・It has been confirmed that one can carry out attacks such as slashing and use defenses like shields while staying transparent.

・ The baby slimes are really impressive. Incredible!

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